So I think I finally want to buckle down and work on my site. But I've been so out of the web development side of things I am not sure where to begin. I would to try and build from scratch with minimal help from GUI based editors. I will be doing most of the work from the Mac. A friend of mine suggested emacs as the editor of choice, but he is a ruby nut so I am looking for other suggestions for editors.

Also I am looking to accomplish 2 major objectives...

1) main blog page2) Photo Gallery

These are to start, not sure what else I may. Does anyone have any decent references on where to start? Looked around on the intarwebs but didn't have exactly what I was looking for. The hosting platform is linux with MySQL databases (so I suppose LAMP).

Thanks for any assistance, also the i am hoping to get my coding skills up to speed by doing this. I like to learn by having some sort of tangible goal.

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the input. Yeah DataDwarf, I hear ya. Right now it is just to get me back in the coding saddle and give me something to mess around with. I am sure at some point I will be bored with maintaining it, but for now I want to learn a bit more about locking a site down to better understand Web App Security principles. Sometimes it is more meaningful to actually do it than tell people how to do it.

Already do in a not so hands on capacity, well not introduce the vulnerability, but handle the incident response. Unfortunately I am not the one who gets to make any changes, simply coordinate (oh how I love outsourced environments :p